There has certainly been a bit of panic in Liberal land since the “Outremont Poll” came out on Friday, showing the NDP in front. Given the strong candidate the NDP is fielding and what I’m hearing is a very disorganized ground campaign by the Liberals, this might not be as surprising as it would seem at first glance.

Either way, given low voter turn-out in by elections, there’s no use panicking until Monday night, and there’s certainly nothing to be gained by going around and spreading conspiracy theories about espionage from within.

It should make for an interesting night of results – less glamorous, but more important, would probably be a Conservative win in Roberval-Lac-Saint-Jean.